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ottomy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ot-to-my
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A skeleton.

Colloquial; Obsolete

noun

Very thin person.

Etymology

Variant of otamy, corruption and clipping of anatomy, from Latin anatomia, from ἀνατομή (anatomḗ, “cutting up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, incise”). Doublet of anatomy.

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Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

ottomies (plural)

Questions

What does ottomy mean?
A skeleton.
Where does ottomy come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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